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t of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.

a, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage. -- Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Zoöl.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket. -- Pouched mouse. (Zoöl.) See Pocket mouse, under Pocket.

A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like. King. Chapman. Starling the heath poults or black game. R. Jefferise.

Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. Thomson.

The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. Carew.

Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. [R.] J. Young.

A division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.

To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate. Young.

The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.

Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

y of the sphenoid bone in front of the basisphenoid. It is usually a separate bone in the young or fetus, but becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.

Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.

a primordial leaf; a primordial cell. Primordial utricle (Bot.), the interior lining of a young vegetable cell.

A petty prince; a young prince.

hat never may remove. Surrey. Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print. Sir John Beaumont. Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. Roscommon.

One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice. While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. Dryden.

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated. Sachs.

putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness. Procrastination is the thief of time. Young.

The act of begetting; generation and production of young. South.

To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain. This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. Sandys. [They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milto…